26 February 2009
25 February 2009
Thanks Hilary!
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US Secretary of Hilary Clinton plans to announce a $900 million pledge of US aid for Gaza and the “good” terrorists of the PA.
The money is not going to Hamas.
Hattip Aussie Dave
22 February 2009
New IDF Weapon
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The latest addition to the arsenal: a group of African antelope, each weighing nearly 1100 pounds.
The antelope have been stationed on Israel's border with Lebanon, to eat up the "problematic foliage that distorts views of the Lebanese side and within which Hezbollah guerrillas could hide."
The beasts, known as "Elands," were introduced to Israel from east Africa in the 1970s, to fill zoos. But when these animals "impressive chewing abilities were discovered," the animals were recruited by the military.
"The Elands eat tremendous quantities and do a wonderful job clearing the weeds at enormous or secret military installations, and in places were there are ammunition storerooms, where the fear of fires is greater. In these places the Elands save on manpower and obviate the need for spraying chemical herbicides."
There are now "between 500 and 700 Elands" at military bases throughout Israel.
20 February 2009
18 February 2009
New weapons of the IDF
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IDF Ground Forces Command recently displayed weapon systems and others - most of them used during last month’s Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip - at military base in the South.
Called the Eyeball, the spherical camera was developed by the Tel Aviv-based company ODF Optronics.
An advanced, audio-visual surveillance sensor, the Eyeball was used by IDF troops during the Gaza offensive to survey homes and suspicious areas before entering them.
Each unit is only slightly larger than a baseball and can be simply thrown into the area that needs to be checked out. It provides continuous, real-time 360º audio and video surveillance and can be moved remotely. It It can also be mounted on a pole or lowered on a cable into a tunnel.
Another product from ODF Optronics is the Eyedrive, a lightweight, four-wheel, remote-controlled, observation and surveillance mini-robot that provides continuous, real-time 360º audio and video surveillance. Due to its durability, the robot can be thrown on the ground, go down stairs, flip over and keep on going.
The EyeDrive unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) uses remote-controlled 360-degree panoramic video technology and a patented Point & Go sensor guidance mode to run down and “instinctively eliminate” human targets at ranges of up to 90 feet, according to ODF Optronics.
Built-in navigation allows multiple units to work in robotic unison, thus doubling, and even tripling, indoor reconnaissance capacity, according to the Israel-based company. In fact, the standard kit comes with two complete units. It could replace K-9s in attack mode and other dangerous duties
This 5-pound all-terrain mini mite can be tossed–or dropped–from up to about 10 feet and is dual-side operable, which means it’s self-righting. The “hopper” feature is optional. It allows the EyeDrive to hop over 3-foot obstacles, enhancing its observational capabilities, according to the developer.
Also used for the first time during the offensive was the Matador shoulder-launched anti-structure munition.
Used by infantry to destroy Hamas positions inside homes and other structures, the Matador incorporates an advanced tandem warhead concept that can be operated in two modes: against fortified positions and other structures, and to create a hole in a wall without destroying the inside of a home.
The Matador was acquired by the IDF in light of the Second Lebanon War, when infantry forces had problems hitting Hizbullah positions inside homes in the absence of a tank or attack helicopter.
The Ground Forces Command also put the IDF’s new armored personnel carrier on display. The Namer (Tiger) is based on the same platform as the Merkava MK4 Battle Tank and has the same high-level of reinforced steel protection.
“The Ground Forces Command is more prepared today than it was in the past decade to deal with the threats and challenges,” OC Ground Forces Commander Maj.-Gen. Avi Mizrachi said.
Obsequious Obama
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This was written in the comments of a previous post
A Foreign Policy of Obsequiousness [Anne Bayefsky]
Yesterday in Geneva, President Obama unveiled the new look of America’s foreign policy — obsequiousness. It was Day One for his emissaries to the U.N. planning committee of the Durban II conference. This is the racist “anti-racism” bash to be held in Geneva in April. The U.S. and Israel walked out of the first go-round in Durban, South Africa in September 2001. Ever since, the U.S. government has refused to lend any credibility to the Declaration adopted after they left. That is, until yesterday.
U.S. representatives were addressing a human-rights negotiating committee with an executive consisting of a Libyan chair, an Iranian vice-chair, and a Cuban rapporteur. Russian Yuri Boychenko was presiding over Monday’s “human rights” get-together. Before them was a draft document which participants plan to adopt in finished form at the conference itself. The draft now contains mountains of offensive references to limits on free speech, anti-Israel and anti-Jewish provisions, and incendiary allegations of the victimization of Muslims at the hands of counter-terrorism racists.
Here is how the American delegates responded to a proposal they understood was incompatible with U.S. interests (“Brackets” denote withholding approval at any given moment in time.): “I hate to be the cause of unhappiness in the room . . . I have to suggest this phrase remains in brackets and I offer my sincere apologies.”
Having watched U.N. meetings for the past 25 years, I can’t remember a U.S. representative in a public session so openly obsequious, particularly in the presence of such specious human rights authorities. And yet the U.S. delegates appear happy to be there and convey the marching orders of their new commander-in-chief.
Unfortunately, while Obama’s calling the tunes, items like freedom of expression are being rearranged. On the table was a provision which “Calls on States to ensure that lawmakers discharge their responsibilities in conformity with . . . article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination . . . ” What did the American delegation have to say about that? Among other things they proposed: “add after article 4, ‘and 5(d)(viii) of the Racial Discrimination Convention.’”
Flashback to 1994. The United States Senate imposed a reservation on U.S. ratification of the Racial Discrimination Convention concerning article 4 because it restricts free speech. Article 4 aims to limit incitement to racial hatred, but is open to an interpretation in direct conflict with the First Amendment.
Obama’s delegation, however, did not object to the proposal to ensure lawmakers adhere to article 4. Instead, they suggested adding a reference to another part of the Racial Discrimination Convention that guarantees an equal right to freedom of expression regardless of race. This idea does not in any way meet the Senate’s command to ensure that the Constitution trumps the treaty in matters of free speech.
There is no escape from Durban II — at least with our vital principles intact.
On Monday, President Obama’s decision to wander into the Durban II sinkhole also raised concerns in the Jewish community. In deciding to attend the planning session, Obama had ignored the direct plea from Israel’s Foreign Minister to stay away, along with Israel and Canada. Instead, on Monday the President sent reassuring messages via phone calls from senior White House and State Department officials.
According to reports, these officials claimed “that Washington's decision to participate in the conference was being coordinated with the Israeli government.” That would be true — if “coordination” meant announcing hours in advance that the United States intended to do the opposite of what had been requested.
Jewish leaders were also told that the U.S. presence was “an effort to change the direction of the conference.” Apparently, someone in the administration forgot to read the map. The conference objectives have already been unanimously agreed to by all participants, including the European Union. Objective number one is to “foster the implementation of the Durban Declaration” — the same one that claims Israelis are racists, in fact, the only racists U.N. member states could recall. Those directions aren’t going to be changed. On the contrary, the opening words of the Durban II document — also already accepted by consensus — read “reaffirming the Durban Declaration.” Change you can’t believe in, again.
Overall, on Day One, U.N. members were delighted by the new administration’s timidity. And they know exactly how to ensure those promises of change continue. In an entire day of a four-day meeting, they reviewed only 11 of the 140 paragraphs. The next set of meetings will be in April right before the conference itself. By the time somebody begins to suspect it might not change, it will all be over, in more ways than one.
— Anne Bayefsky is a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute and at Touro College, New York.
15 February 2009
Hamas Uses Muppets as Weapons
14 February 2009
UNRWA and Terrorism
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United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA), has ties to Palestinian terror groups and severely mismanages funds.
Hat tip
Lots more here
12 February 2009
11 February 2009
Bielski Brothers in the Israeli News
After surviving years in the forests, the area that the Bielski Partisan Brigade operated in was taken over by the Soviets. The Bielski Partisans, numbering 1,230 men, women and children, emerged from the forest and marched into Nowogrodek.
Despite their previous collaboration with the Soviets, relations quickly worsened. The NKVD started interrogating the Bielski brothers about the rumors of loot they had reportedly collected during the war, and about their failure to "implement socialist ideals in the camp".Asael Bielski was conscripted by the Soviet Red Army and 6 months later fell in the battle of Königsberg in 1945.
The remaining brothers escaped Soviet-controlled lands, emigrating West. Tuvia's cousin, Yehuda, was sought by the NKVD for having been an officer in the pre-war Polish Army but managed to escape with Tuvia's help and made his way to Hungary and then to Israel.
After the war, Tuvia Bielski returned to Poland, then emigrated to Palestine (present-day Israel) in 1945. Tuvia and Zus eventually settled in the United States. The last living Bielski brother, Aharon Bielski, emigrated to the US in 1951.
The article below is an interview with Asaela from an Israeli newspaper titled, "My Father the Partisan"
There are over 50,000 Bielski Partisan survivors alive today.
10 February 2009
09 February 2009
Rahm Emanuel in the IDF
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Rahm Emanuel did not serve in the Israeli army, but was a civilian volunteer in the IDF for a short time during the 1991 Gulf War with the IDF's Sar-El program.
Volunteers should expect to do any work that needs doing that may be done by a civilian. Some examples:
- Quartermaster and Supply - processing materials, taking inventory, organizing or packing supplies in a warehouse
- Base Maintenance - painting, gardening, cleaning
- Maintenance and Equipment Repair - machinery repair, vehicle and general parts maintenance
- Kitchen - preparing food, serving, washing dishes, cleaning dining room
Any civilian can come to Israel and volunteer in the IDF for a short time. It's a fun way to have a unique and inexpensive vacation. You can also brag to your friends that you were in the IDF!
More on Sar-El here
07 February 2009
Obama Ice Cream
06 February 2009
05 February 2009
Defiance Movie Reviews from viewers
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Zwick underplays the havoc the Bielskis caused to Germans, Bellarussian and Polish enemies.
Zus had 67 documented personal kills which are broken down in The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duffy.
Overall the Ostriad (Bielski Brigade) had almost 400 kills.
Zus's defiance was brutal without remorse as his mother, father, two brothers, wife and daughter were murdered. It never dawned on him if his response was disproportionate.
Now if he, or Tuvia, were in charge, they would have cemented political alliances and not let their charges be fired upon without extracting total surrender. They will only understand the stick.
-I am Bielski
Great movie It was comforting to see Jews fighting back nazis soldiers,killing them in droves Should our ancestors have behaved like Bielski fighting brigade, genocide would have NEVER ocurred .
-Trumpeldor
03 February 2009
Yaakov Kirschen has done it again!
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Since 1973 Yaacov Kirchen has been writing his amazing strip "Dry Bones". I've been a fan for a long time.
More here.
Thanks George, Hamas is still at it.
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-Rockets fired at Southern Israel
-Air Raid warning sirens in Eshkol Negev region communities.
Hamas Rocket strike from Gaza today on Ashkelon, in Southern Israel:
Despite ongoing Hamas mortar and rocket strikes on Israel, International Humanitarian Aid will continue to enter Gaza today via Israel's border crossings to the tune of 200 trucks. (source)
George Mitchell sure is doing a great job!
Hat tip Jameel
01 February 2009
Anti-Israel Riot in London
George Mitchell is here to fix everthing
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Anyone who reads this blog knows I'm no fan of the new US president.
What was Obama thinking sending George Mitchell back over here?
Since his arrival in the region, several rockets and mortars have been fired at Israel by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.
What's Mitchell's plan to fix everything?
In 2002 he promoted the Saudi Initiative, which offers Arab recognition of Israel in exchange for a full Israeli retreat to the 1949 armistice line, the release of all terrorist prisoners and Israeli citizenship for millions of Arabs.
Mitchell also announced Friday that the U.S. will contribute over $20 million in aid to Gaza.
Sounds to me like a script from a bad movie. Maybe Mitchell will use his experience at Disney to make it all work...
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